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The company was founded in 1916 as Kings Bay Kull Company with the intention of operating a coal mine. It was later nationalized, and in 1962 the mine closed in the context of a political crisis in Norway known as the Kings Bay Affair (Kings Bay-saken). A research facility was subsequently set up in at Ny-Ålesund, to be run by the company. [4]
A MFPU boat pictured in 2016. A Maritime Force Protection Unit (MFPU) is a U.S. Coast Guard special unit tasked with the protection of U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) while surfaced and transiting U.S. territorial waters to and from their patrol stations.
Submarine Base Kings Bay at Camden County, Georgia (1978–present) Naval Base Kitsap at Kitsap Peninsula Washington (2004–present) Submarine Base New London at Groton, Connecticut (1915–present) Naval Station Norfolk at Norfolk, Virginia (1917–present) Naval Base Point Loma at Point Loma, San Diego, California (1917–present)
Kings Bay attempted coal liquefaction from 1924 to 1927 in cooperation with Greaker Cellulosefabrik. Four hundred tonnes of oil were produced, but the endeavor failed to become profitable. [20] The labor union, Kings Bay Arbeiderforening, was founded in 1925, although many of the workers had previously ad hoc organized themselves. [21]
Ny-Ålesund was established as a mining company town by Kings Bay in 1916. [2] Between 1925 and 1928, four attempts were made to reach the North Pole by air from Ny-Ålesund. In May 1925, Roald Amundsen used Ny-Ålesund as a base for two flying boats, but the expedition failed to come closer than 88 degrees north. [3]
MSST 91108 -- St. Marys, Georgia (Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay) (Established 2003) MSST 91109 -- San Diego , CA (Established 2005) (transitioned into MSRT West in 2016, the Coast Guard' 2nd high-risk/counter-terrorism unit, also parent command of all Coast Guard dive lockers)
Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is a base of the United States Navy located adjacent to the city of St. Marys in Camden County, Georgia, on the East River in southeastern Georgia, and 38 miles (61 km) from Jacksonville, Florida.
The Kings Bay Coal Mining Company was a coal mining operation based in Ny-Ålesund on the Norwegian territory of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. Since 1933 it had been a wholly owned crown company, held by the Norwegian government. [2] Between 1945 and 1963, 71 people died in three major accidents in the mines.